Good evening everybody, as I sit here and peck away at yet another report I am reminded that I have been doing this for almost 15 years and that this is probably north of my 10,000th report or update which is wild to consider.

However, I look in the mirror, boy do I believe it, though!! ;-)

As Ram Dass said, we’re “being here now” – a part of the Cosmos looking back on itself, which is remarkable, and I am dumbfounded daily by how amazing this whole thing called life is while I learn to be grateful for it even when it sucks and isn’t working for me or others I know and love.

As my old friend F. Alex Johnson once said within the context of all aspects of life that befall us “and on we go”, and on *I* will now go with this evening’s brief report after this most recent episode of “Dave’s Periodic Cosmic Wonderment Blabfest (that’s a DPCWB for the folks following at home).

Moving on, we’ve got snow showers pushing into central and eastern NY this early evening, set to move through SVT, the Berkshires and the rest of WMass and points east as a milder push of air precedes tomorrow’s storm.

Scattered coatings are possible in areas north of the Pike, especially along and north of Rt. 2, and lows will drop into the upper teens to low 20s. A few hilltowns or mountains could see up to an inch.

Tomorrow’s storm will run up the St. Lawrence River Valley in southeast Canada and keep us on the mild side of that system, but we do have cold air in place and that is historically hard to dislodge from the CT River Valley, and models don’t usually pick up on it very well.

I believe that the first area to see snow tomorrow will be the northern Berkshires into SVT with some light snow in the morning, followed by a bigger push of more organized precip into the region by early to mid afternoon and through the early evening. Highs will reach the mid 30s to low 40s with colder air moving in by the evening.

This will be an elevation-dependent system, meaning the highest snow amounts will fall in far northwest MA (northern Berkshires, western Franklin and western Hampshire Counties) up into SVT where the highest peaks are, likely resulting in 2-6″ there by tomorrow night, with a potential for well over 6″ in the high mountains of the southern Greens, so that’s good news for the ski areas.

The rest of the Berkshires, northern Litchfield Hills, southwestern hilltowns, eastern Franklin County high terrain into northern CMass and up into the hills of SWNH should see a coating to 2” of snow by tomorrow night.

The rest of the valley in WMass south and east should see little to no accumulation with any early-onset snow in the afternoon going to mix or rain, though it could end as snow between 7-9pm, so I will monitoring that.

After that, the storm clears east with some additional upslope snow in SVT and the Berkshires, followed by a blustery day on Thursday with highs in the upper 20s to low 30s and west-northwest winds gusting 25-40mph which will drop wind chills into the upper teens at times.

There’s a low chance at some more lake effect or upslope light snow accumulations in the Berkshires and nearby areas Thursday night, but again, I will keep you updated as we get closer to these potential impacts.

Have a great night!